Pretty pissed off!

We are moving and my friend's next door neighbour is a removals man, she is good friends with him and she asked him if he could do my move for me for a good price.He came round yesterday and seemed like a nice bloke, he gave me a quote which I thought to be very expensive and after chatting to my dh we decided to use someone else. There is a website that he found where removal companies bid for the work and we found someone on there. The price we got it for was 1/2 what this other bloke quoted me.

I sent him a text this morning saying thank you for your time but we have found someone else that is cheaper.He text back saying "good luck with cheap"

Yes, he has been a bit unprofessional by sending that text but move on, it ain't no biggie. Of course you are entitled to use whomever you want and you are. I probably would have got another quote just to see whose was unrealistic...cheapest isn't always better and sometimes if you pay peanuts you get monkeys.

Well....I went for cheap removals and ended up having several items broken and they didn't have their own insurance so I lost out. Probably not to the tune of the £1k I saved, but I'm not sure I'd go cheap next time I moved.

We are in a recession, times are hard, maybe he's under pressure, maybe he really needed the work and is very disappointed not to get it. Maybe his football team lost last night, maybe he had a row with his wife. Whatever, his response is more to do with him and his own shit than with you. Move on and move house.

I think he was implying that there are removal firms who provide a quality service (providing boxes, providing guarantees and insurance, taking items to designated rooms, providing assistance putting furniture back together again etc, etc) naturally they charge for this service. There are also basic removal firms who literally load and unload boxes they charge a lot less for this basic service.

Personally I was that impressed with the service Brittania Removals provided I would never use anyone else. Yes we paid through the nose but nothing was too much trouble for the blokes and everything went very smoothly.

I think i must be odd. A response like that wouldnt piss me off at all. I'd probably laugh at it and think " what an idiot- doesnt he know i'll tell potential customers about his attitude" but pissed off? No. Why would i be?

I wouldn't always go for cheap either, if there was someone who I knew I could trust that would do the job I'd always go for them.

I have read some absolute horror stories about removal companies so make sure you read the small print. I have heard of many people who had their stuff packed up, van got to new house and the removal men said that because it was more stuff than anticipated they had to pay more and until they paid their stuff would not be unloaded - what do you do when all your stuff is in the van?